• DocumentCode
    1351492
  • Title

    A New Discrete Weibull Distribution

  • Author

    Stein, William E. ; Dattero, Ronald

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Business Analysis; Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas 77840 USA.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    6/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    196
  • Lastpage
    197
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces another discrete Weibull distribution. A connection is shown to the famous Birthday Problem and to the lifetime of a series system of components.
  • Keywords
    Hazards; Random variables; Reliability theory; Weibull distribution; Birthday problem; Discrete Weibull distribution; Series-system;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1984.5221777
  • Filename
    5221777